Hi, I hope its appropriate to ask this here, considering this is the most active community closest to this topic (Networking). I am moving places shortly and will need to start from scratch will all networking equipment. Including router and wifi-extenders. Am wondering what the general consencus is around networking gear, what brands are good and homelab friendly? I’ve heard great things about Ubiquity, but know nothing about their products. I do wish to buy a mesh system, as I do have 2 floors and concrete walls in the new place. I am looking for something easy to maintain, yet customizable for when I get more comfortable with playing around with networking equipment.

I have some experience with TP-link + decos, but really dont like their app and default settings. Blocks mullvad.net by default for instance…

If it matters, there will only be 2 people connected normally ~ approx 8 devices or so in total.

  • 2 phones,
  • 2 laptops (wired if possible)
  • 1 desktop comupter (wired)
  • server (wired)
  • Nvdia shield (wired)
  • RaspberriPi (wired)

Am also aiming to buy a 1000/1000 Mbps connection :)

Lemmy know what you would recommend in this scenario, and please feel free to ask about further details if I have missed anything, Thanks as always!

  • @IHawkMikeEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    I would never use their firewalls/gateways, but their switches are pretty good for the price and their APs are decent (although tbh after 3 generations my next AP will likely be an enterprise Aruba).

    That said, I still use Unifi in docker, everything is up to date, and nothing is requiring a sign-in to the cloud. Am I missing something? If it’s just the firewalls, then I’m not surprised since I’ve never been remotely tempted to use them, but it sure isn’t all of their devices.

    • @friend_of_satanEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      What router do you have? If it’s a dream router, how did you join it to your unifi running in docker on another host?

      • @IHawkMikeEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        My firewall is a Fortigate 60F.

          • @IHawkMikeEnglish
            2•4 months ago

            I believe you. I’m just saying their non-firewalls (i.e., switches and APs) don’t have that limitation.

            • @friend_of_satanEnglish
              3•4 months ago

              Oh yeah, exactly. USG and aps and stuff do not. The dream router does, so I would caution against it.

              Also, they may force it in the future. Their past behavior does indicate that direction.